Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving gradually" toward a definite and lasting goal, DuPlessis went on, but "people won't believe us." He said that a slow adjustment toward total separation is taking place...
...John W. Vogt, a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs spoke on "The Expectations of Limited War" at the Air Force R.O.T.C. unit's annual Christmas dinner last night. He sharply criticized the present administration's foreign policy doctrines and expressed the need for a more positive attitude toward Russia to replace our current "passive and apologetic" stand...
...last three years there has been only one real change in the situation. Britain has decided she doesn't need the island so desperately after all, and now seems willing to give considerable ground toward effecting a compromise solution. She must retain control of her all-important military installations, but apparently can dispense with the rest of Cyprus. This change in attitude came a bit too late, however; for in drawing Turkey into the mess, Britain had added a force fully as intransigent as she herself was before...
After years of trial-and-error taxation, the nation's 1,272 life insurance companies moved a step closer toward accepting a permanent formula for totting up-and increasing-their federal tax bill. The companies (in which 109 million Americans have policies with a face value exceeding $458 billion) last year paid $292 million, based on a stopgap law that levied the regular 52% corporate income tax on up to 15% of their net investment income. Industry executives who jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways...
...Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very...